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Nutritional intake monitoring for nursing home residents: a comparison of staff documentation, direct observation, and photography methods
Author(s)Sandra F Simmons, David Reuben
Journal titleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 48, no 2, February 2000
Pagespp 209-213
KeywordsNutrition ; Patients [nursing homes] ; Personnel ; United States of America.
AnnotationThe current approach to assessing nutritional intake requires nursing home (NH) staff to document total percentage of food and fluid consumed at each meal. Because NH staff tend to significantly overestimate total food intake, methods need to be developed to improve the accuracy of food intake measurement. This study compared three different methods: NH staff chart documentation, research staff documentation according to direct observation, and research staff documentation according to photographs of residents' trays before and after meals. The photography method yielded the same information as direct observation by research staff, and both these methods showed the intake levels of NH residents to be significantly lower than the intake levels documented by NH staff. (AKM).
Accession NumberCPA-000502410 A
ClassmarkCF: LHB:LF: QM: 7T

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